Edith Caroline Rivett (6 May 1894–2 July 1958) was a British crime novelist best known as E. C. R. Lorac. She also wrote as Carol Carnac and used Mary Le Bourne on the manuscript of Two-Way Murder. Born in Hendon, Middlesex, she attended South Hampstead High School and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Her detective-fiction career began with The Murder on the Burrows in 1931, introducing Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald of Scotland Yard. The Macdonald novels combine clue-based investigation with close attention to London neighbourhoods and English rural communities. Her Carol Carnac books feature other investigators, including Chief Inspector Julian Rivers. Rivett spent her later years in Aughton, Lancashire, with her sister Gladys. British Library Crime Classics reissues have introduced her work to new readers. Fell Murder, Murder by Matchlight, and Fire in the Thatch show her range across northern farming country, wartime London, and rural Devon.
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